viii, 304 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-287) and index

The social context of the popular music revolution. Professionalism and commercialism. The sheet music trade ; The piano trade ; Copyright and performing rights ; The star system -- New markets for cultural goods. Promenade concerts ; Dance music ; Music hall and cafe-concert ; Blackface ministrelsy, black musicals, and vaudeville ; Operetta -- Music, morals, and social order. Respectability and improvement ; Physical threats to morality ; Public and private morality ; Threats to social order ; Threats to public morality -- The rift between art and entertainment. Light music versus serious music ; Art, taste, and status ; Opera versus operetta ; Folk music : Edification for the uncritical --

Studies of revolutionary popular genres. A revolution on the dance floor, a revolution in musical style : the Viennese waltz. Unterhaltungsmusik and popular style ; Stylistic features ; Music and business ; Class and the metropolis ; Artiness and seriousness -- Blackface minstrels, black minstrels, and their European reception. Seeking the black beneath the blackface ; England's preeminent minstrel troupes ; Black troupes ; Minstrel contradictions ; The minstrel legacy -- The music hall Cockney : flesh and blood, or replicant? Phase 1 : parody ; Phase 2 : the character-type ; Phase 3 : the imagined real -- No smoke without water : the incoherent message of Montmartre cabaret. The Chat noir and Aristide Bruant ; Other cabaret artists ; The proliferation of artistic cabarets ; Cabaret and the avant-garde

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